From LQWiki

SuSE is one of the oldest and most popular Linux distributions. It is RPM-based, and well known for its stability and for the quality of its configuration toolkit, YAST. There are SuSE Linux flavors tailored for desktop, laptop, office and server needs.

SuSE is seen as a good distro for beginners (along with Mandriva or Fedora) and enterprises (along with Red Hat) as it provides a user friendly environment, with GUI's for configuring hardware in the excellent Yast. KDE has been integrated into SuSE (Gnome and other window managers are included) providing seamless configuration.

Get it

Download an installation CD for SuSE from http://www.opensuse.org.

Suse support forums

Novell has a set of support forums for its products, including Suse. These can be found on your web browser, starting at Novell support forums. For those wanting to use an NNTP news reader, e.g., Pan, you can use Tools/News Servers to add Novell's news server, support-forums.novell.com, to the list of servers accessed.

A very convenient way for beginners to get support is the Freenode irc channel #suse.

Links

• Suse forum
• The openSUSE project (www.opensuse.org)
• SUSE Installation Walkthrough with Screenshots (www.debianadmin.com)
• SUSE and OpenSuSE Tutorials,Articles,Tips (www.susegeek.com)
• Suse 9.3 license (br-linux.org)
• SuSE website
• SuSE 9.2 Personal Edition review by LinuxDig (www.linuxdig.com)
• www.susewiki.org (www.susewiki.org)
• wikipedia on SUSE